.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being actually welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clarify whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually normally the scenario, but AFP reporters had actually previously found Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would be the 2nd exchange in between the challenging countries considering that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, featuring a "girl who was hijacked when she related to care for her ill papa.".He mentioned the substitution also featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, border shields and police officers.AFP contacted 2 ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring flowers, who stated they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Shield, claimed.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods hiding their skins, which were actually eliminated as they were actually packed into a minivan.AFP talked to a number of all of them for a while, plus all those who communicated claimed they were actually taken captive throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression last month.